archiveenero 2018

Officers discovered the Class A drugs on Monday 29 January, when Border Force officers examined 15 suitcases accompanying 5 passengers on a private jet arriving from Bogota, South America. It is believed to be one of the largest seizures of its kind in the UK. The weight of the drugs...

Politician, social and peace activist Piedad Córdoba was born in Medellin, Colombia, on January 25, 1955. She was the second of ten children of Zabulón Córdoba, an Afro-Colombian who rose from humble origins to become a sociology professor and university dean. Her mother, blue-eyed blonde Lía Esneda Ruiz, married Zabulón as a teenager. Their first...

Claudia Morales shocked the country when she published a column in newspaper El Espectador in which she said that one of her former bosses raped her, but would not reveal his name out of fear for repercussions. Morales’ career spans two decades and includes jobs in journalism and public relations...

Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman has promised not to kill any of the jurors presiding over his federal trial in New York, his defence lawyer has said. The drug kingpin, who was extradited to the United States from Mexico last year, faces federal charges for his alleged role running a drug...

Fake news just got real. Brandon Griesemer, who is from Detroit, was arrested on Friday after making more than 20 phone calls to cable channel CNN and threatening to travel to the news organisation’s Atlanta headquarters and carry out a mass shooting. So said the New York Post on Tuesday. They called...

An oil spill from an Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea is now the size of Paris. The slick covers an area of 101 square kilometers (39 square miles), after almost doubling in size from the start of the week, according to figures released Wednesday by the Chinese State...

A prominent opposition figure Venezuela was killed after a high-powered firefight with security forces, making him perhaps the highest-profile individual slain in government security operations that critics say are used to target political dissidents rather than crime. On January 15, security forces in Venezuela killed Óscar Pérez, a former intelligence police officer and...

Francisco Illarramendi often called on Moris Beracha when he needed an infusion of cash. The Venezuelan-born Illarramendi was a manager of a Connecticut-based investment advisory firm. Beracha was a Venezuelan financier close to the Hugo Chavez government who, a lawsuit against him claims, could produce multi-million-dollar advances of cash with...

Record highs, all-time lows, and a few surprises: 2017 proved a remarkable year in terms of homicide rates for many countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. Once again, InSight Crime presents its annual homicide round-up to give a snapshot of murder rates around the region. Venezuela: 89 per 100,000...